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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> No hooks means something like cvsnt does, and that means no .gitattributes 
> either. (BTW I really hate .gitattributes, as it does not at all say what 
> this is about; it's about file _conversions_, not attributes).

> However, I am slightly positive about the .gitfiletypes approach, _iff_ we 
> think about more than just text/binary from the start. If we do it right, 
> it will buy us more.

We might start with only binary/text attributes, but we may add
more later, e.g. chmod=o-rwx.  I do not see much differnece
between attributes vs filetypes.